Library Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Correspondence
The Making of a Mind
Genèse d'une pensée. Lettres 1914–1919
Nearly one hundred and fifty letters written between battles, in which he comments on his essays as he writes them and describes the war as an 'encounter with the absolute'. It is the intellectual diary of his formation.
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Authorship note
Letters from the front to his cousin Marguerite Teillard-Chambon, published by Grasset in 1961.
Editions and translations
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English
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest
The Conscious LibraryThe Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest
Harper & Row, 1965
Translation: René Hague
Other works by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The Human Phenomenon (The Phenomenon of Man) · 1955
- The Divine Milieu · 1957
- The Mass on the World · 1923
- The Heart of Matter · 1976
- The Christic · 1955
- Hymn of the Universe · 1961
- The Appearance of Man · 1956
- The Vision of the Past · 1957
- Man's Place in Nature · 1956
- The Future of Man · 1959
- Human Energy · 1962
- Activation of Energy · 1963
- Science and Christ · 1965
- Christianity and Evolution (How I Believe) · 1969
- Toward the Future · 1973
- Writings in Time of War · 1965
- Cosmic Life · 1916
- The Spiritual Power of Matter · 1919
- My Universe · 1924
- The Spirit of the Earth · 1931
- The Phenomenon of Spirituality · 1937
- Note on Some Possible Historical Representations of Original Sin · 1922
- The Mammals of the French Lower Eocene and their Deposits · 1922
- Early Man in China · 1941
- The Scientific Work · 1971
- Letters from a Traveller · 1956
- Letters from Egypt and from Hastings and Paris · 1963
- Intimate Letters · 1972
- The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan · 1993
- Journal · 1975
Sources
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Genèse d'une pensée: lettres 1914–1919. Ed. Alice Teillard-Chambon y Max Henri Begouën. Paris: Grasset, 1961. Texto en Wikisource.
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